People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.
~By Gretchen Mol ~
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
~By Ron Kind ~
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
~By Major Owens ~
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
~By William Scranton ~
Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
~By Mark Strand ~
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
~By Roger Staubach ~
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~By George W. Bush ~
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.
~By Edward Steichen ~
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
~By Roy Romer ~
It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.
~By Josh Holloway ~
Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
~By Joy Page ~
From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.
~By James Tobin ~
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
~By Roland Allen ~
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
~By Allen West ~
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
~By Ernestine Rose ~
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
~By June Carter Cash ~
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
~By Edward Abbey ~
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
~By James W. Black ~
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
~By James A. Garfield ~
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
~By Deborah Cox ~
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
~By Rita Dove ~
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
~By Ralph Allen ~
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.
~By Doris Roberts ~
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
~By Craig Claiborne ~
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.
~By George Carey ~
I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
~By Valentina Tereshkova ~
I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
~By Balthazar Getty ~
This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
~By George Haven Putnam ~
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.
~By Wayne Allard ~
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
~By Stockwell Day ~
The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
~By Michael Schudson ~
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
~By Fay Vincent ~
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
~By Pat Riley ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
Education is the transmission of civilization.
~By Ariel Durant ~
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
~By James Sanborn ~
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
~By Robert Anderson ~
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
~By Jack Adams ~
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.
~By Gerard Debreu ~
Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission.
~By Lindy Boggs ~
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
~By Steven Squyres ~
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
~By John H. Reagan ~
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
~By Mark Kirk ~
My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
~By Gary Burghoff ~
Every mission accomplished.
~By Matthew B. Ridgway ~
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
~By Benjamin Harrison ~
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
~By Rick Springfield ~
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
~By Tina Turner ~
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
~By Richard Perle ~
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
~By Grace Hopper ~
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
~By Diana Krall ~
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
~By Colin Powell ~
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
~By Terri Apter ~
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